Language Quote by Marilyn French

“The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.”

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Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

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All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

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Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age,…

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My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

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There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

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